beige vs ecru

beige

noun
  • A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 

  • Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. 

adj
  • Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 

  • Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia. 

ecru

noun
  • A beige colour. 

adj
  • Of a beige colour. 

How often have the words beige and ecru occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )